Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 948a0aee3f2d04bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2021-03-20 04:18:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: c67b258e8274f9d944f16a30d9345f7b SHA-1: 106a4b369728ebaa36ede63032c6f3acfebd6f02 SHA-256: 948a0aee3f2d04bbe625828c67398d2abfcea5ca8d15056de8050bf0bab8db40
114 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It employs a common phishing tactic by presenting itself as an image-only document, a 'screenshot lure', to entice users to click on an embedded URI. The URI points to 'baarspo.ru', suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8097

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 35 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://baarspo.ru/award?keyword=balanced+scorecard+strategy+for+dummies.+pdf+download PDF link annotation

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